Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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